I've recently started working with Lilypond (2.11.45, Mac OS X) and am hugely
impressed - congratulations to all involved.
My main interest is contemporary vocal and choral music. Here, one commonly
needs to indicate a transition from one phoneme to the next. It seems
natural to do this with a lyric extender and Kieren MacMillan in
http://www.nabble.com/lyrics-extender-lines-until-the-end-of-the-last-note-of-the-melisma-td11849989.html#a11849989
this post suggested a way to force an extender right to the next lyric
syllable. Assuming one isn't using extenders for normal melismas, one can
create a thick line suitably spaced in this way:
\context {
\Lyrics
\override LyricExtender #'thickness = #6
\override LyricExtender #'left-padding = #2
\override LyricExtender #'right-padding = #2
}
However, composers indicate transitions in many different ways - lines,
dashes, arrows, or double lines, wavy lines - which may be vertically
centered or on the lyric baseline. How can one customize the lyric extender
symbol or create a special function to do this? Is there a better way
altogether? I'm no coder and this is just beyond me, but I'm sure someone
out there can help.
Many thanks.
Peter
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